Greetings from the Live From the Rock Folk Festival Artistic Director
Welcome and thanks for dropping by to visit our website.  The Live From the Rock Folk Festival is a very special event taking place on the northern shore of the world’s largest lake the second weekend of every August.   It’s an amazing gathering of an eclectic group of people who together form a magical community in the park.  Many of our supporters come back year after year and camp next to festival friends, joining them around the nightly campfire, listening to music on four stages from morning to midnight, admiring the works of artisans and consuming the great food sold on site by a variety of vendors. Together we celebrate non- commercial alternative music, artists, the north and community!  The festival is completely volunteer run and all of us who dedicate countless hours to “the cause” do so because we love music and community.

We invite you to join us and become part of the Live From the Rock family.  Come to the festival- we do need paying audience members; and bring your family and friends.  Apply to be a food vendor or artisan, volunteer or sign up to play on the open stage.

Although being AD is really difficult, in that we get well over a thousand applications each year from artists who would love to play at the festival, I do consider it an honour and a privilege to program the music for the Live From the Rock Folk Festival.  I only wish I could hire ten times the number of musicians and that we could run the festival for a whole month!  Now there’s a sure fire way to scare off all our volunteers!

Anyway browse through the site and check out the artists who’ve joined us in past years.  We usually have the lineup posted by March for each year’s festival but be assured that of the 25 or so artists who will be performing there will be artists who you will  absolutely love – even if you’ve never heard of them before.  Remember there are no rock stars in Red Rock; each artist is a vibrant part of our festival community.  Every person who is at the festival is considered a V.I.P and that includes the volunteers, artists, sponsor, vendors and audience members.  So come out this August and enjoy the natural beauty of the Red Rock waterfront, the good vibes and great people and the heartbeat that permeates everything through the weekend.

Yours for the music,

Liz Harvey-Foulds